STDOUT weirdness

[archrival]

I'm capturing stderr and stdout on a particular application and I'm not able to see the output of the command until the command has exited. However I am able to see the output of that commands child processes. If I run the command on the command line I am able to see all output in realtime. Is there any way to flush the console buffer or whatever is causing the text to hold up when redirection is occuring?

[bo8ster]

thats a good question and something I have looked for before not been able to find the answer to. While I cannot answer your question I do know where it has been done before.

The following is taken from the Diskpart Library

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;; Function     : __dpReadCommandOutput
;; Description  : Reads stdout until the next command prompt is seen or the process terminates
;; Parameters   : $pid      : [in]  running diskpart process identifier
;;                $output   : [out] contents of stdout
;; Returns      : Success   : 1
;;                Failure   : 0
;;                @ERROR    : 0  = Success
;;                          : 1  = Failure
;;                @EXTENDED : 2  = $_DP_ErrorCode_InvalidProcessID
;;                          : 3  = $_DP_ErrorCode_UnexpectedTermination
;;                          : 4  = $_DP_ErrorCode_StdoutStreamError
;;
Func __dpReadCommandOutput( $pid, ByRef $output )
    
    If Not ProcessExists( $pid ) Then Return __dpSetError( 1, $_DP_ErrorCode_InvalidProcessID, 0 )

    $output = ""
    While ProcessExists( $pid )
        ConsoleWrite("In __dpReadCommandOutput while loop" & @LF)
        Local $_peek = StdoutRead( $pid, 0, True )
        If @error Then Return __dpSetError( 1, $_DP_ErrorCode_StdoutStreamError, 0 )
        ConsoleWrite("Peek is " & $_peek & @LF)    
        If $_peek > 0 Then
            $output &= StdoutRead( $pid, $_peek )
            ConsoleWrite("Peek is greater than 0 and output is " & $output & @LF)  
            If @error Then Return __dpSetError( 1, $_DP_ErrorCode_StdoutStreamError, 0 )
        EndIf
        ;
        ; We loop until the process terminates or we see the next prompt
        ;
        If StringRegExp( $output, "(?i)diskpart>", 0 ) Then Return __dpSetError( 0, 0, 1 )
        
    WEnd
    ;
    ; its up to the calling code to determine if this was really unexpected or not
    ; since we don't make any assumptions about the commands being issued
    ;
    Return __dpSetError( 1, $_DP_ErrorCode_UnexpectedTermination, 0 )
EndFunc